Hansen - 01 by Fadeout

Author:Fadeout
Format: epub

"It had to be a long time ago." Dave studied the photo. "Kids today don't grin like that."

"No, they don't, do they?" She nodded, troubled. "It's as if they understand already that there isn't much in life to smile about." She sighed. "And that's a shame. They ought to be like birds."

Like a bird in trouble, a kettle shrieked in the back room. She led him there. The place was dim under fortywatt bulbs. It smelled of seed, alfalfa, sawdust—bird food, rabbit pellets, cage litter. Paper barrels, bulging sacks, unopened cartons, dusty unsold aquariums, cages in swaths of brown paper. Behind chicken wire, guinea pigs hopped over the backs of tortoises. A taffy-colored cocker spaniel nursed wriggling pups. A sick monkey hunched by a rain-gray window.

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